KristinK – Contemporary Racism

Modern Racism

KristinK — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:25:06 +0000

I found the chapter Old-Fashioned versus Modern Racism very interesting because I think that it portrays how racism is expressed most often today. I thought it was interesting that Modern racists consider racism to be open feelings of hatred of towards the minority group. I think that this is an idea that is held by quite a few people and they do not realize that there are many other forms of racism. The article also ...

Whites are Racist

KristinK — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:39:44 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about the Tatum article and how only white people can be racist. I had never previously thought about racism as being separate from prejudice, but separating the two has made me understand my own feelings on these issues better. I hate that there is racism in the world but defining it as only something whites can have towards another group actually made me feel better. With this definition (or ...

Episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine “White Like Me”

KristinK — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:23:06 +0000

This episode of the New Adventures of old Christine has a lot of race issues and shows colorblind racism in a comedic form. http://www.megavideo.com/?v=38KP9OEA

Stereotype Threat Prevention

KristinK — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:59:19 +0000

I have found that many of the articles we read throughout this course are informative but most of them leave me with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness. I really liked the ending of the Steele article because it gave an answer or an idea on how to prevent stereotype threat. The article said that black students who attended the informal weekly rap sessions between white and black students had reduced feelings of stereotype threat ...

Telling People I’m a Racist

KristinK — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:20:10 +0000

We are talking about racism in another class I am taking this semester as well as this one. The other day the professor asked us if anyone in the class considered themselves to be racist. I raised my hand because of the Tatum article we all read at the beginning of this class. As soon as I raised my hand I wished I hadn’t. No one else in the class had put their hands in ...

IAT

KristinK — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:25:12 +0000

I found the Implicit Associations Test to be extremely frustrating. It was aggravating knowing which letter I was supposed to press and actually getting my fingers to press the correct letter. I found myself yelling at the computer and at myself when I would press the wrong letter. I also had a hard time remembering what categories corresponded with “e” or “i” and there were times I didn’t mean to press a button but my ...

Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices

KristinK — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:51:09 +0000

After reading the article Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices: A Peek Inside the Cognitive Toolbox, I have thought a lot about how stereotypes are formed. According to the article we stereotype automatically without being conscious of what we are doing. It makes sense that we put people into certain schema’s, we do it with everything else however it is much more problematic to stereotype or put people into a schema than it is for us to ...